The Birthday Book

A birthday gift book, activity book, and fact book all in one! 
 Birthdays! What boy or girl doesn't look forward to that special day? But have you ever wondered why we celebrate the way we do? Or what is done at birthday parties elsewhere in the world? 
 Jump into The Birthday Book, discover amazing facts about birthday celebrations across the globe, past...and presents! Find out why kids in ancient Greece put candles on their cake. Learn what Chinese children eat on their birthday. And what exactly is the Indonesian game of lompat tali? As a bonus, follow the guide to making your own birthday time capsule and preserve the best history of all -- yours! 
 Playfully illustrated in vivid birthday colors, and wrapped in enough fascinating facts, cool trivia, and awesome activities to liven up any party, find out why The Birthday Book is a title worth celebrating! 
 Key Features:
<ul>Quick suggestions for party games and activities Riddled with jokes and trivia </ul>

Children's Books

Shapiro, Sheryl

Forrester, Tina

Arts, Music & Photography

Annick Press

Better Together

Mix anything together and who knows what you’ll get. You may create something wonderfully different! Water and flour make a sticky paste perfect for arts and crafts. And what can be better than mixing sugar, milk and butter to produce yummy fudge? With simple words and vivid illustrations, this series of 13 fun and bouncy poems illustrates the concept of combining things. Mixing blue and yellow paint to make green is probably familiar to most children, but who thinks of music as being the result of mixing the sounds of instruments? Or a sports team as the combination of many players with different strengths? Young children will love listening to these funny poems while learning about a simple, but important, concept.

Literature & Fiction

Slither Slide, What's Outside?

Slosh from the big one into the small. Whooshing and slooshing--your own waterfall. 
 When young children observe the natural world, what do they see? Very often, it's an inspiration for creative play. As in Nora Hilb's previous book, Wiggle Giggle Tickle Train, 13 vibrant spreads show how children use the world around them to come up with ideas for play. Striking real-life photographs of waterfalls, worms, and wintry roads are juxtaposed with lively drawings to reveal a child's own inventive interpretation. Short bursts of action-packed poetry encourage preschoolers to identify patterning in text and the sounds associated with ideas. 
 The sight of a beautiful rainbow is reflected in multihued crayons as two children create their own masterpieces. The sound of noisy geese flying south sets the stage for a concert with bugle and horn. And imitating a frog leads to a game of jumping over logs. 
 While developing language skills, kids can create their own imaginative play from what they see in nature.

Shapiro, Simon

Hilb, Nora

Early Learning

Slosh from the big one into the small. Whooshing and slooshing--your own waterfall.  When young children observe the natural world, what do they see? Very often, it's an inspiration for creative play. As in Nora Hilb's previous book, Wiggle Giggle Tickle Train, 13 vibrant spreads show how children use the world around them to come up with ideas for play. Striking real-life photographs of waterfalls, worms, and wintry roads are juxtaposed with lively drawings to reveal a child's own inventive interpretation. Short bursts of action-packed poetry encourage preschoolers to identify patterning in text and the sounds associated with ideas.  The sight of a beautiful rainbow is reflected in multihued crayons as two children create their own masterpieces. The sound of noisy geese flying south sets the stage for a concert with bugle and horn. And imitating a frog leads to a game of jumping over logs.  While developing language skills, kids can create their own imaginative play from what they see in nature.

Ladybugs Have Lots of Spots (Shapes and Spaces)

Circles can be fat or thin; there can be lots -- or one. And round things can be big or small, and learning can be fun!  This innovative picture book encourages children, through poetry and photographs, to explore the idea of what is round -- from the spots on a ladybug's back to a ring on a finger or a wheel on a bike. Using words such as 'dot,' 'spot,' 'loop,' 'hoop,' and 'ring,' it shows that round things aren't all alike, but can be anything!  Tires on a car are round, for example, and so are the traffic lights that tell those tires when to go and stop. Three round buttons? They're the same shape as a hula hoop!  A perfect complement to Zebra Stripes Go Head to Toe, the simple text and vibrant design of Ladybugs Have Lots of Spots encourage children to look for and identify similarly shaped objects in their own environments. Paired together or read separately, these fun books are a great way to introduce the concept of shapes to young children.

What Can You Do With Only One Shoe?: Reuse, Recycle, Reinvent

One can, two can. Who can? You can!Using junk from the landfill site.Rusty cans and wood and wire,thrumming, strumming, day and night.In this inventive new collection of verse, Sheryl and Simon Shapiro introduce readers to 13 everyday objects that have been ingeniously reimagined into something else altogether.Color photographs of recycled objects are accompanied by lighthearted, jaunty poems in a variety of lengths and rhyming patterns. Kids will love identifying each reinvented item, and will marvel at how a shoe makes a great bird’s nest, how old tin cans make a guitar, or how a car can be transformed into a bed!Complete with Francis Blake’s lively color illustrations, What Can You Do With Only One Shoe? will delight young readers while introducing the idea of recycling and repurposing in a new and innovative way.

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Books by Shapiro, Sheryl

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The Birthday Book

The Birthday Book

Better Together

Better Together

Slither Slide, What's Outside?

Slither Slide, What's Outside?

Ladybugs Have Lots of Spots (Shapes and Spaces)

Ladybugs Have Lots of Spots (Shapes and Spaces)

What Can You Do With Only One Shoe?: Reuse, Recycle, Reinvent

What Can You Do With Only One Shoe?: Reuse, Recycle, Reinvent